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Adams' Electric Railway System 1884 pics model

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Adams' Electric Railway System 1884 pics model
Posted by tomkat-13 on Monday, February 5, 2007 8:07 PM
I receved this old cabinet card from a friends estate.....it reads.... "Compliments of Wellington Adams as operated at St Louis Exposition 1884" Looks like a garden RR. Click on photos to enlarge.

Need any info on this.

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Posted by underworld on Monday, February 5, 2007 8:09 PM

Great photos!!! Thanks!

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Posted by van buren s l on Monday, February 5, 2007 8:28 PM

Tomkat

Your photos are very interesting, especially since they precede the installation of the first U. S. trolley line by four years. Thanks for sharing them.

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Posted by Rene Schweitzer on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 9:54 AM
Tomkat,

Cool postcard. I've forwarded the link on to a couple of our contributors who are interested in garden-railway history.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 6:35 PM

I agree it looks a bit like a garden railway but my old eyes could not find any rails.

I do not really think it is a garden railway and i do not really know what it is?

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Posted by tomkat-13 on Saturday, July 14, 2007 10:50 AM
 Adams' Electric Railway System 1884: Still looking for info on this train.
I model MKT & CB&Q in Missouri. A MUST SEE LINK: Great photographs from glassplate negatives of St Louis 1914-1917!!!! http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/kempland/glassplate.htm Boeing Employee RR Club-St Louis http://www.berrc-stl.com/

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